SFMOMA showcases Matisse’s pivotal ‘Woman with a Hat’

What happened

According to Local News Matters’s source item, SFMOMA showcases Matisse’s pivotal ‘Woman with a Hat’, Henri Matisse’s colorful, iconoclastic 1905 portrait of his wife Amélie wearing a big hat is at the center of a thrilling exhibition opening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this week.  “Henri Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal” illustrates how the painting — perhaps the most prized masterpiece in SFMOMA’s collection and a leading […] The post SFMOMA showcases Matisse’s pivotal ‘Woman with a Hat’ appeared first on Local News Matters .

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Source

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